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Article #94847Re: The Aiming Problem
From: Dan C
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:56
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:56
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:33:54 -0700, mooseboyskip wrote: > Sorry, I can just not get it done. It's such a sluggish way of > aiming, and yes I've changed the mouse controls, and tried them on > several variations, and it's still not easy to aim. And by not easy, > I mean, practically impossible for me to aim using the mouse. > > I might have to just give up. The other problem I've noticed is that > whenever there's a few monsters in the area, the tracking of the video > seems jumpy, and disjointed like it's not running smoothly. I can > pretty much shoot Imps without the mouse, if I just leave the aim > point centered, but not when I can't move smoothly. I bought this > computer last summer--the game came out in , what, 2004, right? A > computer three years older than the game should be able to track > smoothly right? > > And now with the Lost Souls, I can't even see the fricking things, I'm > getting bumped around so much. I couldn't shoot lost souls easily in > doom2 either, but at least I could move out of their damn way then. > Now with the tracking difficulty...I just can't get it done. Pussy. -- "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!transit4.hitnews.eu!feeder2.cambrium.nl!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe09.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail From: Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> Organization: Dunedain Subject: Re: The Aiming Problem User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Message-ID: <pan.2008.09.26.12.56.06.566362@moria.lan> Newsgroups: alt.games.doom References: <a131d62d-9cce-4840-bf52-b87b7cfe6e39@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> X-OS-Version: Slackware Linux 12.1 (custom 2.6.26.5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.187.52.177 X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@cox.net X-Trace: newsfe09.iad 1222433759 70.187.52.177 (Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:55:59 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:55:59 UTC Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:56:08 -0500 Bytes: 2344 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit